The Role of Workers, Migrant Workes and Expatriates

Summary

Due to the needs of improving economically and as a person, a lot of people leave their home countries to work and provide their knowledge and services to the other country.

But most of the time this situation leads to the person to a process of new socialization where he must “start over” on a completely new environment to which he is not familiarized with, and this adjustment sometimes is very hard to achieve. 

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Topic Question

How easy is it for Colombian companies to employ expatriates locally?

-The Colombian laws and work regulations are not inclusive for foreigners, there are many reasons but he most notable are the high rates of unemployment Colombia has (12.9% at the end of 2010), so for is hard for Colombian companies to employ foreigners when there’s an internal jobs deficit; in addition to this the internal armed conflict Colombia has been suffering since the last 40 years doesn’t help in case foreigners find any kind of desire to settle in Colombia to work and make a life.

 Article reference: http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/economia/noticias/tasa-desempleo-en-colombia-cerro-2010-en-118

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